Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration?

http://www.ted.com Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing.

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[strappinggermanlad]

can't wait to look at all the porn sites i visited by categories!

[DigitalAssassin]

This is a clever UI.

To make a clever UI useful, you need some form of automatic data entry, or a million monkeys typing on a million keyboards.

If his research is conceptual, and all this data was entered by hand? Then this is almost completely useless. If pivot can index & tag data on its own (besides just history and stuff), then it's revolutionary.

Realistically, you have to program an 'interpreter' for each data source, and for that you need a lot of programmers.

Interesting anyway!

[mmoshunt]

I wonder if he's still a fan of Lance Armstrong

[c0unterph0bia]

Based on similar BI software I've been using, I can almost guarantee it automatically indexes & tags.

[deadforaminute]

so how do you download pivot?

[saijai587]

Thank you for sharing TedtalksDirector

[kopi5896]

Good video.

[minami935]

Yes it is a pivot turning point for web exploration.

[devilninjas]

boring... its already there. this guy looks like living in dinosaur's world

[MUR4DHD]

that smart

[pwiattitto]

@nathanaelawrence

I like the (yet unrivalled by any other microsoft os) stability and reliability of XP SP3.

And I don't believe in the constant replacement of OS's as a prerequisit of modern day computing.

If or When I make my next hardware upgrade, I will still use XP ...for the gaming side of things.